SHAMBOLICA!

Multi-media ART collective based in the UK specialising in installations, exhibitions, performance, events, music, film, sonic manipulation, visuals and technical exploration.
All art is creation and all creation is art.
Freedom, truth, expression, the possibilities endless.
BE creative,
BE SHAMBOLICA!

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Wednesday 17 October 2012

Shambolica Presents: "CHAOS" - Super September Continues at 13th Note


Super September continues at A Little Bit of Theatre where Shambolica! Presents...CHAOS!

Following their frivolous antics at The Art School, Klaus and Baron a few days later made their way through the streets of Glasgow with their sparkle box of wonders down to the 13th Note on King Street.

Invited as part of Marta Adamowicz's scratch night A Little Bit of Theatre, Klaus and Baron came bashing through the doors of the famous vegan cafe like two gunslingers in a John Ford Western.

Due to the enormous nature of the wonder box Klaus and Baron were unable to perform in the downstairs performance basement so they had to make do with shedding their colour vibes in the cafe area unbeknownst to some of the polite eaters being catered for.

Tired and drained from being on the road for 367 days since they left their commune in Reykjavik and with Glasgow City Council continually on their tails, the duo were starting to fade.  To add to this they were both missing the colourtastic vibrant tones of Tertre Rouge who was colour meditating in the New Mexico desert with Mark Rylance.  However, the two clowns/charlatans of light soldiered (shambo'd) on by downing some whiskey, readjusting their face colours and channeling their Shambo-occular-vision.

Waiting in the bathroom beneath the cafe they heard their names called out. "KLAUS!", "BARON!". Their ears pricked up. A tingling of colour infused their eyes. "Baron! Tambourine!" Klaus grunted, "Klaus! Horn of the Gravy Train!" Baron gritted.  

They came pounding up the stairs. Klaus with his terrible rhythm, Baron with his catastrophic Shambo horn booming out.  
"COME COME SHAMBOLICA! COME COME SHAMBOLICA!" they wailed! 
The audience sitting there in awe of the box unsure whether to look forward or look behind. Klaus's voice bellowed out like a fog horn, Baron grabbed around flicking and kicking. With the audience stunned, Klaus fell into a stream of gibberish-cinema influenced pop culture banter whilst Baron pinged from audience member to audience member grinning like Jack Nicholson in The Shining.  Almost as if the box was speaking to them, guiding them; Klaus and Baron were in a trance that evoked all the spirits of the box.  They spewed out a myriad of creations which included songs, chanting, a brief drawing class and ranting as well as crazy vibes that were intimidating, insulating, pro-vacating, adulating, contemplating and best of all; Entertaining! 

One audience member was so in-tuned with the performance he sat there in his seat jumping and clapping like a school kid high on sweets.  Some were wide eyed and confused, others delighted, the rest in wondrous applause.  Klaus and Baron soon left as they arrived in a cataclysmic cauldron of boisterous sparkle magic!  

Tuesday 16 October 2012

Shambolica Presents: "FIGHT NIGHT" - The Start of Super September

On the 10th September 2012 Shambolica! launched "Super September" with a performance at The Art School as part of the Glasgow School of Art Fresher’s week. FIGHT NIGHT saw Klaus and Baron roll into town with their box of wonders to entertain the new art students.  Accompanying Klaus and Baron this time was Tilly the Temptress!
KLAUS THE STRONG MAN
Image by Robbie Bert

TILLY THE TEMPTRESS
Image by Robbie Bert

BARON PUNCH
Image by Robbie Bert
Klaus and Baron performed a twist on proceedings by conducting a painting masterclass for the young new artists! Led in by Tilly the Temptress and her rattling bell, Klaus and Baron were hooded and bound in front of the crowd before being disrobed, unshackled and unleashed on the unsuspecting audience! Baron with his garish stalking and Klaus with his now infamous “bounce!” jump threw themselves into a confrontation of Jackson Pollockesque swirls and twirls.  Klaus and Baron had fallen out a few weeks prior over their abilities as provocateurs of art and decided once and for all to settle their dispute.  With Tertre Rouge on holiday in Greece with Terrence Malick he had sent Tilly the Temptress a pounding soundtrack to settle the proceeding squabbles.  Gathering students up to the box they were encouraged by Klaus and Baron to PAINT! PAINT! PAINT!
Image by Robbie Bert
Tilly the Temptress allocated Klaus and Baron half the audience each to cheer them on and to pick on unsuspecting victims of SHAMBOLICA!

Image by Robbie Bert
Boom, crash, FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! Paintbrushes drawn, paint bubbling in the cups, canvases eager for the splatter of the paint, Klaus and Baron went scrounging for Shamboites! Enthralling and disrespectful in equal measure Klaus and Baron goaded each other whilst harassing their chosen “student” to PAINT! PAINT! PAINT! More COLOUR! COLOUR! COLOUR! Occasionally running over to inspect their opponent’s work Klaus and Baron were imbued with a sense of hysteria courtesy of probably drinking too much paint over the years and their travels from Mongolia to East Kilbride.

Image by Robbie Bert

The intensity increased to all out war when Klaus and Baron got the entire fresher’s crowd to come draw, paint, scrawl and doodle! Encouraging them all to come to the box to feed on its shambolic scent, colour and sparkle magic!  Klaus and Baron bouncing off their canvases like RP McMurphy and bellowing chants from the book of Shambolica! 
Then suddenly a ROAR! 
The Shambo Momma God appears waddling in like a drunken elephant chomping on her bottom lip.  “What’s going on here?” she bellows. Klaus and Baron hadn’t seen their momma since she popped out to get some milk 5 years previously. The Shambo Momma gave them a severe dressing down for their antics and Klaus and Baron agreed they didn’t want to fight no more and then, suddenly, they had an idea, an idea for a song…. 

SHAMBO GOD COMETH
Image by Robbie Bert

Images of FIGHT NIGHT can be found HERE!  Special thanks to Robbie Bert on fantastic photos.  The soundscape to accompany the fight night performance can be downloaded/streamed and listened to HERE! and the video of the performance can be watched HERE!

More info on super september to follow shortly!
THANKS FOR READING, remember, BE CREATIVE, BE SHAMBOLICA!